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Want debate? Declare a songwriter a poet. Want controversy? Award that songwriter the most famous literary prize of all.

The reunion between Phil Treloar and Simone de Haan was a reunion with music, itself

It's October in an even-numbered year. So what, you say, but history suggests Taylor Swift's sixth album could soon be upon us.

When sisters each make it to No.1, it's news. When both of them are changing the way music is made, it could be historic.

Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," the Swedish Academy said on Thursday in awarding the 8 million Swedish crown prize.

Australian rapper 360 has revealed his own battled with drugs, saying methamphetamine, commonly known as ice, has been the hardest to beat and watching Victorian government anti-ice television campaigns only makes him itch for more.

From indie-rockers Ratcat to singer-songwriter Jack Colwell, we have live music covered.

Sticky Carpet: the Delta Riggs, Kyneton Music Festival, Parquet Courts, the Barebones and more.

Mariachi El Bronx shows, according to guitarist Joby Ford, attract every single type of person regardless of age or ethnicity.

Making artists wanting to play in Australia pay three times the price for a visa may see ticket costs rise and tours fall.

EG album reviews: The Peep Tempel, Harry Howard & the NDE, Beth Hart, Jagwar Ma and Lost Animal.

Finally learning some lessons about songwriting, and life, after 30 years as a musician has turned Irishman Glen Hansard into somebody new.

The Nation Blue showed Dave Grohl a thing or two about playing through adversity.

 She is still surprised by her success, but now four years since her last album Norah Jones is taking the "lazy and slow" route back through the music charts.

One hundred years after his death, it's time for Australia to honour one of its most talented losses on the Somme, the composer Frederick Septimus Kelly.

The American singer-songwriter keeps her own company on tour and on stage, and is always looking for the next unexpected recording location.

The Melbourne trio temper their post-punk howl with discombobulated piano and industrial squeals.

Auriel Andrew was a regular little country music fan as a girl. She remembers her mum standing her up on the table when she was small, to do her party dance to *Guitar Boogie*.

The collected collective works of Dolly, Emmylou and Linda meet raw Australian storytelling, New York quirks, prolific folk rock and piano-led jazz.

The return of a residency like this might be just what the doctor ordered

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When your sister is a brand and a star recognised around the world it can seem like you're forever playing second fiddle. But no more for one "little sister".

Have Green Day self-produced themselves out of the sound that made them appealing? Has Barry Gibb still got night fever? Should the Kaiser Chiefs have teamed up with Girls Aloud's producer? Does Devendra Banhart deserve a little slap?

The American violinist and pianist will perform works by Janacek and Saint-Saens and a premiere of an Australian piece.

Yehudi Menuhin recorded his first disc in 1928, aged 11, and his last just a few weeks before his death in 1999. An 80 CD set tries not to leave any good bits out.